Biosecurity & INNS Fund
Helping fund Local Action Groups across Yorkshire to incorporate biosecurity into their day-to-day activities and start systematic INNS management programs.
Over the past four years Yorkshire Wildlife Trust have been running a biosecurity project funded by Yorkshire Water. The aim of this project was to increase biosecurity best practice among high risk user groups as well as promote management of Invasive Non-Native Species (INNS).
Through the Biosecurity & INNS Fund provided by Yorkshire Water we’ve been able to offer funding to six successful partners to deliver priority INNS management from the catchment headwaters down or across high risk sites within Yorkshire.
The Projects We've Funded
Sheffield Invasive Non-Native Species Control
Run by Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust
The project aims to manage Himalayan Balsam, Japanese knotweed, Variegated Yellow Archangel and Rhododendron. This work will be carried out across Wyming Brook, Carbrook Ravine, Blacka Woods and Greno Woods.
Remove Ure INNS
Run by Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust
This project is aims to work with volunteers to map and then systematically manage Japanese knotweed and Giant Hogweed in the Upper Ure Catchment and its tributaries.
Swale & Tribs Collaborative INNS Project
Run by Reeth & Distric Angling Club, Richmond & District Angling Society & Gilling West Fly Fishers
The project ran by the angling clubs will focus primarily on Himalayan Balsam working with volunteers from the local community and local landowners to systematically control Himalayan balsam.
INNS Out
Run by River Holme Connections
This project aims to expand their existing successful work on Himalayan Balsam and Japanese knotweed within the Holme Catchment. Balsam control will be focussed around Boshaw Whams, Upper House Dike & Morton Woods and Bank Dike.
Yorkshire Balsam Busters
Run by Open Country
This project will work with local volunteers in a dual mission to positively impact the lives of the local disabled community and enriching nearby green spaces to address climate change at a grassroots level by managing Himalayan Balsam. Management will be focussed in the areas around Harrogate and Wakefield on sites which pose a particular high risk to spread.
